All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.

But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property comes another institution-that of plunder and brigandage. In private life, no motive of action is at present so powerful and so persistent as acquisitiveness, which unlike most other desires, knows no satiety. The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got, and not till then.

The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

The jealous man is so preoccupied with what he hasn't got that he fails to appreciate the value of what he has got. He loses the ability to feel glad because the sun is shining. He doesn't see the wonder and the newness of the beginning of spring.